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Commenting on the Sacco-Vanzetti case to which he gave the most of his attention in his indictment of the courts and of the Department of Justice, Mr. Beffel declared that in many of its elements, this case bears a close resemblance to the Mooney and Billings case in California. "I have been here investigating this case since December 1," he continued. "Sacco and Vanzetti are accused of two pay-roll murders which occurred at South Braintree last April. Sacco was indicted on the testimony of three eye witnesses, none of whom would say positively that...
...recent exposures concerning the alleged questionable proceedings of the Department of Justice are sufficiently grave to demand the immediate attention of every exponent of civil liberty. The Sacco-Vanzetti case, the fall of the Italian, Salsedo, from the fourteenth story of the offices of the Department, the extended list of its illegal practices compiled by such lawyers as Zachariah Chafee, Felix Frankfurter, and Dean Pound of the Law School, cannot fail to arouse the suspicion that "where there is smoke there is fire". Specifically, the Department is charged with wanton destruction of property; arrest without warrant; illegal imprisonment without trial...
John S. Codman '90, a Boston lawyer, and Elizabeth G. Flynn, an organizer of the Woman's Defense Union, will speak on the Sacco-Vanzetti Case in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock tonight. The meeting, which is under the auspices of the Student Liberal Club, is open to all members of the Union...
John S. Codman '90 and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn will speak on the Sacco-Vanzetti Case under the auspices of the Student Liberal Club in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock Monday evening. Sacco and Vanzetti have been put in prison charged with complicity in hold-ups, charges which their supporters claim were directed against them because of their radical opinions...